In a mood in which he was feeling the “delight, the evanescence and love within which we are all enfolded”, my dear friend, Hiroshi “YOTA” Tanaka, wrote the score for a CD album, NATURE SONG.  It is the third offering in a trilogy titled MARVELAND, in which Yota-san musically and emotionally,  maps a legendary world of wonder [another word for miracle] in a transcendent observation of the human drama of endlessly repeating histories.

In NATURE SONG, Tanaka is remembering a carefree time in his life when he ran in the fields, swam in the rivers and the sea, when Mother Nature was less challenged, and when, perhaps, human society was  more inclusive and caring of each other and better cared for the heavenly body from which it derives its sustenance.

Yota’s music evokes memories of an ancient place and time from which our species has continuously played out its transitory existence.  Moving between joy and sorrow as we evolve, our individual lives ebbing and flowing and then returning to their source–as naturally as do the rivers–before  finally dissolving into the One Ocean.

The quality of our  journey and the quality of our Natural world depend upon the quality of our thoughts and deeds.  Song titles like “Gentle Mind”, “Mountain Glow”, “Bird Song” and “Mind Flower” carry the spirit of Yota’s gentleness and childlike wonder of Nature at her finest and free-est.

As I am uplifted by the hopefulness and joy of the title track, “Nature Song”, and feel the genuine childlike wonder carried within it, I know that I don’t want to come to the end of my life in a condition of nostalgia, longing for a better, earlier time.  

In this period, NOW, 2011 the beginning of the Age of Aquarius, there is still time to choose to change the patterns of carelessness for our earthly Mother and each other, and to invite the natural expansion of our consciousness to reach higher levels where we are the true “enjoyers”, unaffected by the dualities.  This can be achieved when our tune is harmonized with Nature’s own song; not another version of  “Play it again, Sam”.   What do you think/feel?

WE are the current stewards of our Wonderland, our Universe, our One Song.  Can you hear our hearts calling out to be restored to the natural rhythms of Life? It may be but one choice away.

“Nature Song” written and conducted by Yota Tanaka is performed by his ensemble, the Milky Way Orchestra (above).     A SPECIAL TREAT:  YOUTUBE video of performance with pan pipes  EIKEN Trio (below)

Solo performance by Hidenori Iwata on panpipes

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A HUGE CHANGE ON OUR PLANET IS IMMANENT!

That statement is the source of a range of emotions–Fear being the greatest of these. How many times have you heard someone say:  “Look at how the world is deteriorating, and how rapidly”, “a huge upheaval, an apocalypse, is approaching and not many will survive”?

Truly, if we could hover above the surface of the Earth and examine it from a distance and consider the condition of the civilization populating its surface, things don’t look all that promising.   The situation in the Middle East, the so-called Holy Land is a perpetual un-holy war zone.  Mayhem by the strong upon the weak is being perpetuated throughout the planet.  We consider ourselves an advanced society, but from this aerial perspective we can see that we are still like primitive bands of warrior states, clustered into opposing groups and forces.   With advances in technology, mankind’s immaturity as evidenced by avarice and greed, have managed to negatively affect the financial health of every single country, not to mention the overall ecology of our planet.  A recent television documentary indicated that if we continue to fish commercially in the ways we have done in the past, within 40 years fish will be extinct and the oceans will die.

I recently looked up the definition of the word apocalypse and found:  “lifting of the veil”, “revelation”,  “a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception”.  I do believe that our civilization’s eyes have been covered by a veil of ignorance, preventing us from seeing the bigger picture as it relates to our very survival and enjoyment of balanced life of health and happiness.

However, not everyone is consumed by a “me me me” attitude.  Far from it!  Every day, new information and more stories surface that reveal a wide-spread awakening is occurring.  It represents a shift in the consciousness of man and womankind.  I believe that we are ready to see through lies we have too easily believed and followed (throughout history) and whose effect is the condition of the world we see today.  I believe we are ready to transcend the falsehoods about each other that have created mistrust and have divided us from our fellow passengers on our planet.

Most importantly, I believe that we are ready to think in terms of “WE”, rather than “me”.  We are ready to open ourselves to ways of living our lives that consider the world as a whole, as a community.  I believe that we are recognizing (on numerous levels at once) that this is ALL ONE interconnected organism in which we are an integral element.

Change is imminent.  But, then, perpetual change is the very nature of action in/of time-space.  It doesn’t have to be a “bad” thing.  To this mind and heart the process to bring about a more positive outcome, a better future—or, to actually HAVE a future at all!—has already begun.  It has begun in your mind and heart and is expanding throughout our shared existence.  If you have chosen to read these words, you know what I am talking about.

A few years ago a friend sent me a copy of something called The Hopi Elders’ Statement.  I don’t know its author nor the date it was written, but it is a beautiful contemplation of the situation at hand and offers pertinent questions for us to search within to answer:

“You have been telling the people that this is the eleventh hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the hour.

And there are things to be considered:

Where are you living?  What are you doing?  What are your relationships?  Are you in right relation?                                                                                                                          Where is your water?  Know your garden.  It is time to speak your truth.
Create your community.  Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
This could be a good time!

There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid,
They will try to hold onto the shore.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      They will feel they are being torn apart And they will suffer greatly.
Know that the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore,
Push off into the river, Keep our eyes open, And our heads above water.
Look around, see who is in there with you and celebrate.

At this time in history we are to take nothing personally, Least of all ourselves.
For the moment that we do our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over.  Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!”

The emergence of these kinds of documents, the healing presence of a Braco, or the marvelous enlightening presentations of physicist Nassim Haramein support us in our conscious awakening and in taking the right actions on each others’ behalves.

This could very well be a good time, a time we will look back at and say: “WE pulled together, and saved our world”.

WE ARE THE MIRACLE WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!

Painting “ALL ONE” 8″ x 24″ on canvas  :  by Sherry Remez

Miracles and Grace happen everywhere, everyday. The point is Awareness.  I feel this idea has significance in today’s human world.  Many people are feeling it, without narrow religious theories.  For example:  through music, like me.

Today I walked around the town in the evening light, musing.  When I raised my face, I found a truck painted with “幸運 (good luck)” character on the road.  Is it a Miracle or not?”
“Yota”–Tokyo, Japan

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